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November 2009 - Visual Studio Blog

What's new for editor extenders in Beta 2?

November 23, 2009 Nov 23, 2009 11/23/09
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(image) Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio:  Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago.  He maintains a blog, posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers editor-related questions on Twitter. Editor’s Note:  This...

What’s new for editor extenders in Beta 2?

November 23, 2009 Nov 23, 2009 11/23/09
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(image) Noah Richards – Developer, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio:  Noah has been working on the Visual Studio Editor team since he graduated college two and a half years ago.  He maintains a blog, posts sample code for editor extensions, and frequently answers editor-related questions on Twitter. Editor’s Note:  This...

Framework Multi-Targeting for VC++ Projects

November 22, 2009 Nov 22, 2009 11/22/09
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(image) Short Bio: Pavan Adharapurapu is a developer on the Visual Studio Project and Build team. As part of VS 2010, he has worked on numerous features of the VC++ project system such as property sheets, filters, property pages, platform and tool extensibility, etc. His long term focus is on developing a "common project system" infrastructure...

Debugging Expression Trees in Visual Studio 2010

November 19, 2009 Nov 19, 2009 11/19/09
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First of all, let’s take a look at the example from one of my previous posts. It creates an expression tree for calculating the factorial of a number. Now, what if you want to see the content of this tree in debug mode? You can try lambda.ToString() but it’s not very informative. All you get is this: value => {var result; … }. ...

Diagnosing Toolbox Filtering Errors

November 18, 2009 Nov 18, 2009 11/18/09
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(image) Hi again – Josh here, Toolbox developer. If you've created or installed a toolbox item, but it doesn't appear in the toolbox when the appropriate designer is active, the first thing to do is select "Show All" from the toolbox and check to see if the item is there at all.  (The new search feature might help.)  If the item ...
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Can I host a VSIX on my own server?

November 12, 2009 Nov 12, 2009 11/12/09
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Several of our VSIP partners have asked me if they can host their VSIX file on their own server and what would the user experience be?To answer the first question, yes, you can host your VSIX file on your owner server.  It doesn’t have to live on the Visual Studio Gallery.  Customers who visit your website can download the VSIX...
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Behind the Scenes: The Splash Screen

November 10, 2009 Nov 10, 2009 11/10/09
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(image) Paul Harrington – Principal Developer, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: Paul Harrington is a principal software developer on the Visual Studio platform team. He has worked on every version of Visual Studio .Net to date. Prior to joining the Visual Studio team in 2000, Paul spent six years working on mapping and trip planning...
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Tips and tricks: Window Management – Aero Snapping

November 5, 2009 Nov 5, 2009 11/5/09
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(image) Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been working in Visual Studio land primarily working on the Start Page and window management areas if the IDE.   One of the largest...

Tips and tricks: Window Management – Aero Snapping

November 5, 2009 Nov 5, 2009 11/5/09
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(image) Adrian Collier – Program Manager, Visual Studio Shell Team Short Bio: I started at Microsoft as an intern in 2004 back in the UK and crossed the pond last year to work on Popfly, since then I’ve been working in Visual Studio land primarily working on the Start Page and window management areas if the IDE.   One of the largest...

Improvements to VS 2010 Text Selection

November 4, 2009 Nov 4, 2009 11/4/09
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(image) Brittany Behrens – Program Manager, Visual Studio Editor Team Short Bio: I’m Brittany, a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Editor team.  Some of you may recognize me from Connect bugs or as the main voice of @VSEditor on Twitter, and I’m responsible for a variety of Editor features.  I love hearing from customers, ...